斯科蒂·皮蓬 (Scottie Pippen) 正在出售与芝加哥公牛队首个 NBA 冠军赛用球相关的加密代币

尽管区块链侦探 @ZachXBT 注意到创建该代币合约的开发者钱包几乎在发布后立即抛售了价值约 33 万美元的代币，但引起了强烈反对，但自 8 月 1 日以来，$BALL 已上涨 86%，市值达到 140 万美元。

Basketball great Scottie Pippen is making his debut appearance at a crypto conference, to promote his Game 5 Ball cryptocurrency ($BALL) project.

篮球巨星斯科蒂·皮蓬 (Scottie Pippen) 首次亮相加密货币会议，以推广他的 Game 5 Ball 加密货币 ($BALL) 项目。

The project aims to “tokenize” the physical game ball from Game 5 of the 1991 NBA Finals, which Pippen held onto throughout the Bulls dynasty.

该项目旨在将 1991 年 NBA 总决赛第 5 场的实体比赛用球“代币化”，皮蓬在整个公牛王朝期间一直持有该球。

Despite backlash over the developer wallet dumping a large sum of the token supply after launch, $BALL is up 86% since Aug. 1 with a market cap of $1.4 million.

尽管开发者钱包在推出后抛售大量代币供应遭到强烈反对，但 $BALL 自 8 月 1 日以来仍上涨了 86%，市值达到 140 万美元。

Pippen's team is marketing this as a “real-world asset” project, where the aim is to log ownership of everything from real estate to cars to a basketball on a blockchain to make them more liquid and transparent.

皮蓬的团队将其作为“现实世界资产”项目进行营销，其目标是将从房地产到汽车再到篮球的所有事物的所有权记录在区块链上，以使它们更具流动性和透明度。

However, Pippen's basketball is not yet “pegged” to the token, which means, for now, $BALL is basically just a meme coin. Pippen fans, sports fans, and anyone else in the community can buy the token in the hopes the price will go up, but there is no physical asset behind it.

然而，皮蓬的篮球尚未与代币“挂钩”，这意味着目前 $BALL 基本上只是一个模因币。皮蓬球迷、体育迷和社区中的任何其他人都可以购买代币，希望价格会上涨，但其背后没有实物资产。

If that sounds baffling, don't glance at a crypto market chart right now, where dog-themed meme coins Dogecoin and Shiba Inu have market caps of $20.8 billion and $10.6 billion, respectively.

如果这听起来令人困惑，请不要看现在的加密货币市场图表，其中以狗为主题的模因硬币狗狗币和柴犬的市值分别为 208 亿美元和 106 亿美元。

Dozens of Joe Biden– and Donald Trump–themed meme coins flooded crypto markets in the past year, and many surged in price based on the perceived pro- or anti-crypto stance of both.

去年，数十种以乔·拜登和唐纳德·特朗普为主题的模因币涌入加密市场，许多币的价格因两人支持或反对加密货币的立场而飙升。

Pippen is merely the latest in a long line of active and retired pro athletes to launch or promote token projects, including Floyd Mayweather, Caitlyn Jenner, Kayvon Thibodeaux, Rob Gronkowski, Spencer Dinwiddie, and even Pippen's teammate Michael Jordan, who did an NFT series around his six rings.

皮蓬只是一长串推出或推广代币项目的现役和退役职业运动员中最新的一个，其中包括弗洛伊德·梅威瑟、凯特琳·詹纳、凯冯·蒂博多、罗布·格隆考斯基、斯宾塞·丁维迪，甚至皮蓬的队友迈克尔·乔丹（制作了 NFT 系列）围绕着他的六枚戒指。

Then there are the athletes who promoted Bahamian crypto exchange FTX (whose founder Sam Bankman-Fried is now serving a 25-year prison sentence) and ended up named in a class action lawsuit, including Serena Williams, Steph Curry, Shaq, Shohei Ohtani, Naomi Osaka, and Tom Brady.

还有一些运动员推广了巴哈马加密货币交易所 FTX（其创始人 Sam Bankman-Fried 目前正在服 25 年徒刑），最终被卷入集体诉讼，其中包括 Serena Williams、Steph Curry、Shaq、Shohei Ohtani、大坂直美和汤姆·布雷迪。

But Pippen might be the first to market his crypto play as an RWA project.

但皮蓬可能是第一个将他的加密游戏作为 RWA 项目进行营销的人。

The next steps in the process of making the ball an RWA are to authenticate it with a reputable memorabilia service; then mint an NFT version (Pippen’s team plans to do that on the Bitcoin network through Ordinals or Stacks, according to the project's white paper) to “enable fractional ownership and allow for interactive experiences within a Web3 game”; and then put the ball in “secure lockdown.”

使球成为 RWA 的下一步是通过信誉良好的纪念品服务机构对其进行验证；然后铸造一个 NFT 版本（根据该项目的白皮书，皮蓬的团队计划通过 Ordinals 或 Stacks 在比特币网络上做到这一点），以“实现部分所有权并允许在 Web3 游戏中实现互动体验”；然后将球置于“安全锁定”状态。

That means Pippen will have to give it up.

这意味着皮蓬将不得不放弃。

“I’ve kept it for 33 years secure, believe me, I can keep it for a few more days,” Pippen quipped onstage Tuesday at the Real-World Asset Summit in New York, his first crypto conference appearance to promote the project. “But we are looking to put it in a secure place, probably with Brink's, and make sure that everyone knows who invests that it is secure.”

“我已经将它安全保存了 33 年，相信我，我可以再保存几天，”皮蓬周二在纽约现实世界资产峰会上打趣道，这是他首次出席加密会议以推广该项目。 “但我们希望将其放在一个安全的地方，可能是在 Brink's 处，并确保每个人都知道谁投资了它是安全的。”

Down the road, Pippen and his team have even higher hopes for $BALL to become a payment method in the sports industry.

未来，皮蓬和他的团队对 $BALL 成为体育行业的支付方式寄予了更高的期望。

But even if none of these grand plans materialize, the price of $BALL could keep rising for no good reason; in the era of the meme economy, both crypto assets and stocks can rise if a group of people on the internet decide to drive them up.

但即使这些宏伟计划都没有实现，$BALL 的价格也可能会毫无理由地继续上涨；在迷因经济时代，如果互联网上的一群人决定推动加密资产和股票上涨，那么它们都可能上涨。

“This ball is about history,” Pippen said in his pitch to the crypto crowd. “It’s about the legacy of the Chicago Bulls. It’s about the dying of a dynasty of the Los Angeles Lakers, who we then knew as ‘Showtime.’ It’s Michael Jordan’s first championship. It’s the franchise’s first championship.”

“这个球是关于历史的，”皮蓬在向加密货币人群演讲时说道。 “这是关于芝加哥公牛队的遗产。这是关于洛杉矶湖人队王朝的消亡，当时我们将其称为“Showtime”。这是迈克尔·乔丹的第一个总冠军。这是球队的第一个总冠军。”

It's also about Pippen making some money. Though he did eventually get paid at the tail end of his Hall of Fame career, signing a four-year, $66 million deal with the Trail Blazers in 1999, he got hosed during the Bulls dynasty, paid more like a fringe bench player than the integral part he was.

这也是关于皮蓬赚一些钱的。尽管他最终在名人堂生涯的最后阶段获得了报酬，并在 1999 年与开拓者队签下了一份为期四年、价值 6600 万美元的合同，但他在公牛王朝时期却遭到了严厉打击，报酬更像是一名边缘替补球员，而不是普通球员。他是不可或缺的一部分。

He never earned more than $3.4 million in a season with the Bulls; in the 1997–98 season, a whopping 121 NBA players (including five Bulls) made more than he did.

他在公牛队的一个赛季收入从未超过 340 万美元； 1997-98 赛季，多达 121 名 NBA 球员（包括 5 名公牛队球员）的收入超过了他。

He didn't gain financially from the viral 2020 Netflix docuseries The Last Dance, either.

他也没有从 2020 年火爆的 Netflix 纪录片《最后之舞》中获得经济利益。

“I felt like the documentary was great,” he says. “I didn’t have anything to do with it, which I was a little disappointed in, but I felt like it was a great documentary. It won some awards. Now I’m looking to do my own thing with the ball.”

“我觉得这部纪录片很棒，”他说。 “我与它没有任何关系，这让我有点失望，但我觉得这是一部很棒的纪录片。它赢得了一些奖项。现在我想用球做我自己的事。”

Whether $BALL is ever taken seriously by the crypto community is

$BALL 是否曾被加密社区认真对待过